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Re: Most developed conlang

From:Ben Haanstra <kof@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 22:30
>This criterion was a quick method to try and assess completeness. >It was never considered "ideal", but I really think it is reasonable.
>Consider your language for example. You say that it has less than >300 words. But what if you make an English/Your-language dictionary. >In English, you would need to define 2000 words. If you had such >a dictionary posted (which would be needed by English speakers), >then your language would meet that particular constraint.
>So my original statement was not precise as I did not add the >condition that due to possible conflicts in the idea of what >constitutes a word in a particular language, it can be counted >dependent on the english equivalents. This would make sense >as the fluency count of 2000 was roughly based on English in the >first place.
>Harold
In that way, it's a good method to rank conlangs. I still believe that 2000 is quite a lot, but speaking about the most developed conlangs it would be a good method. As for the 'competition' I will choose Ithkuil and Ygyde.